Word: bainter
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Jealousy is played by a cast of two persons (Fay Bainter, John Halliday) and a telephone. Its one set is a neatly furnished studio; offstage noises are confined to round knocks upon a resonant downstairs door. Jealousy, which Eugene Walter derived from the French of Louis Verneuil, will be a popular play among little theatre addicts who have no cash...
...skilfully do Fay Bainter and John Halliday play their parts that the anger, folly, fatigue, cowardice, love, lies and bravery of Maurice and Valerie Theulot burn brightly, with unsteady continuity, like candles in a room of woven draughts...
...permitted to view this famous old comedy by Oliver Goldsmith, their faces were not seen to twitch with pleasure, excitement, or surprise. Little did it matter to them that Producer George Grouse Tyler was offering this amiable revival at popular prices; that D. Lyn Harding, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Fay Bainter, Glenn Hunter, Pauline Lord and O. P. Heggie were listed in the cast. The sly choirs of critics were heard chirping in shrill and resonant annoyance; some of the stars, they justly cried, were out of orbit; the play itself was not quite so twinkling as they had been...
...them liqueurs. At the middle of the champagne bottle they are quietly but firmly intoxicated; at the curtain they are swirling drunk. Mr. Coward accomplishes this genteel disintegration with impudent realism. Estelle Winwood encourages his impudence with important blurts and wabbles, including the removal of her shoes. To Fay Bainter, is allotted the task of growing more dignified and lady like with every gulp. All this consumes the second act. A first tells how these impeccable and bosom friends had girlish love affairs with the same man. The man is coming back, also their husbands. In the third act they...
...Miss Bainter is most opt mistie about the modern stage. "People often come and ask me to join some uplift society or other, but nothing is to be accomplished by these methods. The drama is going through a cycle, and will come through stronger than ever. The present phase is just transient...